How rare is the name Elie?

4,034 people in the United States have the first name Elie, about 1 in 74,871. It ranks #4,562 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

ELIE

#4,562

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
4,034
About
1 in 74,871
This common or more
84.2%
Who bears it

Of the 4,034 people named Elie, 58.9% reported their origin as White, 24.9% as Black and 10.5% as Hispanic or Latino. 84.3% are male. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Elie peaked in 2009, when 75 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
18802025
Peak year
2009
Births that year
75
In 2025*
42 ▼44%
Recorded as
mostly male

At least 3,405 babies have been given the name since 1880. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Elie by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1880s, when it ranked #1,381. The largest share of babies named Elie, 24.8%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.

1880s#1,38183
1890s#1,88073
1900s#2,02092
1910s#2,472226
1920s#2,758284
1930s#3,282182
1940s#4,430128
1950s#4,750145
1960s#6,88090
1970s#6,653142
1980s#5,400258
1990s#5,862314
2000s#5,125539
2010s#5,193565
2020s#5,836284
Before 19015.1%
Greatest Generation 1901–2715.4%
Silent Generation 1928–459.3%
Baby boom 1946–647.3%
Generation X 1965–805.9%
Millennials 1981–9612.7%
Generation Z 1997–1224.8%
2013 and later19.4%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Spelled almost the same

8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Elie, most common first.

Also a last name

As a last name, Elie ranks #11,653 of 156,621, with 2,575 people. See Elie as a last name

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